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=<div>sidney powell liar pal booktv her bs bk</div><div></div><div><section class="article-body abody-79076 " style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 1170px; max-width: 1170px; margin: auto; padding: 0px 370px 0px 160px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="article-body-inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;">does a 1L at Harvard Law School end up singing arm-in-arm with one of the most influential judges on the federal appellate bench? If you are a student at almost any law school, not just one of the top ones, and you have remotely conservative interests, you too can join a student chapter of the Federalist Society and gain automatic admission to the highest echelons of right-wing politics and legal advocacy. Take Chris Ward, 31, a former Latin teacher who graduated from Harvard Law School this spring. As a first year student, he attended the society's annual national student symposium, held that year in Chicago. Afterward he repaired to a hotel bar where he and his friends joined in singing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" to Eugene Volokh, a UCLA law professor. Mingling with the group was Judge Alex Kozinski of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, a notorious card who is considered a leading candidate to become a Supreme Court Justice. Ward drew in Judge Kozinski for a few rounds. "I had just met him for the first time," Ward said. "I just thought it would be fun."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;">The chance to meet powerful legal luminaries like Kozinski is one of the special treats that come with membership in the Federalist Society. Headquartered in Washington, DC, the society was a focus of attention this spring because President George W. Bush used it to recommend nominees for the federal bench, a role traditionally assigned to the more moderate American Bar Association. But its real strength is its chapters in 150 law schools, which allow Federalists to gain access to the conservative elite, putting them in a superior position for competitive jobs with judges, law firms and now the Bush Administration.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;">Unlike twenty years ago, when liberal federal judges provided the most desirable clerkships for law school graduates, today the best "feeders" to the Supreme Court and White House are Reagan and Bush appointees. Judge Kozinski, who screens potential clerks for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, says that seeing the Federalist Society on a résumé "tells me you're of a particular philosophy, and I tend to give an edge to people I agree with philosophically." The notion hasn't been lost on law students, some of whom keep two résumés, one with the Federalist Society tacked on. "I have seen some students go to the Federalist Society as a career builder," says Cass Sunstein, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;">Federalists say the favoritism is long overdue; they grumble about what they describe as oppressive disdain from liberal law professors who make them the butt of jokes and left-leaning students who hiss at them in class. To redress this perceived discrimination, the Federalists have created a system that smacks of affirmative action for conservatives. It's an ironic twist for a group that generally opposes affirmative action, on the grounds that opportunity should be based on merit alone.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;">But the benefits of Federalist membership go beyond the usual advantages of affirmative action, like job promotion. They include the opportunity to change law, public policy and the judiciary. From law school chapters, students can graduate into one of the society's fifteen "practice groups," which provide a venue to design arguments that will be well received by the conservative wing of the Supreme Court. Practice-group leaders, who often have clerked for the Court or have argued before it, hold meetings and debates to formulate how to push case law toward Federalist principles.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;">Federalism, in its most basic form, is the idea that the federal government shouldn't encroach on the powers that the Constitution allegedly has reserved to the states. But the Federalist Society is an umbrella organization embracing all right-wing causes. Some members favor libertarian principles of individual rights over "big government"; others advocate strict-constructionist interpretations of the Constitution, which they claim represent the framers' intent. Whatever legal justification is offered to ground these views, the Federalist ideology is in effect a tool to eviscerate Congressional efforts to advance public policy goals where the states have failed. As critics point out, it benefits big business, it's anti-egalitarian, it shuts plaintiffs like the poor and disabled out of the courts, and it rolls back the New Deal notion that the courts have a role to play in helping the downtrodden. While the legal theories may appear tidy, they lack compassion, working to support favorite sons like gun manufacturers and HMOs.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;">Federalist arguments include: Sexual-harassment and gender-equality laws impose illegitimate burdens on business; the powers of the Environmental Protection Agency should be exercised by the free market or, at most, by local or state government; juries are too unpredictable to be given the power to award punitive damages against large corporations but legitimate enough to be empowered to impose the death penalty; welfare laws by and large should be repealed; hate crimes are not a separate and more reprehensible category of criminal behavior than crimes not motivated by animus toward people of different races or sexual orientation; and the right of the people to keep and bear arms means empowering individuals to take up arms, not just preserving organized state-based militias.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;">However, the Federalist Society claims it takes no positions on issues. With its tax-exempt status requiring it to stay away from political activity, it hides behind the notion that it is merely a sophisticated speakers' bureau. "We are not a position-taking organization," Eugene Meyer, the society's executive director, told the Washington Post. (Meyer declined to comment for this story.) "We really are interested in discussion and in getting ideas heard." Even Judge Kozinski, a fairly ubiquitous presence at national events, won't say that he's a card-carrying member. "I'm on the mailing lists," he says. "And whether I attend depends on whether it is something I am interested in." The conservative intelligentsia repeats these lines again and again, as if afraid to say the obvious for fear it will reveal their true agenda. Meanwhile, under the dispassionate guise of a debating organization, the Federalist Society is working to prepare a powerful next generation of conservative corporate lawyers, judges, top government officials and decision-makers committed to fundamental change.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;">How the Federalist Society became a home for young conservatives is a tale told repeatedly by Federalists in trying to explain that they are not the majority but really a besieged minority. In 1982, the history goes, students at Chicago Law School and Yale Law School felt marginalized by the liberal doctrine and ideology that pervaded the curriculum and student body, and decided to form their own organization. The group named itself after James Madison's eighteenth-century Federalist Party, which allegedly favored decentralized government in its later years; and it rallied powerful faculty advisers to help: then-professors Ralph Winter of Yale, now a senior judge on the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Antonin Scalia of Chicago, now a Supreme Court Justice. The group operated on a shoestring for about a year, at which time student leaders landed seed money from the Institute for Educational Affairs, overseen by neoconservatives Irving Kristol and the late William Simon. Federalist chapters soon cropped up at the top schools around the country.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;">Last year the society had annual financing of $3.1 million–a 117 percent rise since 1996. The Institute for Democracy Studies, which has been tracking the society, reported in a briefing paper that about a third of the society's budget comes from right-wing foundations. These include the Sarah Scaife Foundation ($175,000 in 1998), whose chairman, Richard Mellon Scaife, underwrote investigations of the Clintons; the John M. Olin Foundation ($349,404), which funds conservative law programs; the Castle Rock Foundation ($45,000, created with a $36 million endowment from the Adolph Coors Foundation), a supporter of anti-gay-rights groups; and the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation ($158,000), which is the creation of Koch Industries, the second-largest privately held company in the United States. Among large law firm donors are Munger Tolles & Olson, a mecca for former Supreme Court clerks, and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. The latter's partners have included Solicitor General Ted Olson (who argued the Florida election case for Bush before the Supreme Court); Eugene Scalia (Justice Scalia's son), Bush's nominee to become Labor Department Solicitor; and Miguel Estrada, a nominee to the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;">The Federalist Society's staff of thirteen oversees its three divisions, for lawyers, students and professors. The professors' division is relatively small, with only about fifty professors attending its second annual conference in January 2000. Its student division, however, hosts a national convention that this year attracted 250 people to Berkeley's law school, where the topic was "Is Technology Changing the Law?" After panel discussions there are dinners, which are the real reason most students attend. This year, students could meet federal judges Kozinski and Frank Easterbrook of the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, as well as former independent counsel Kenneth Starr. And fliers abounded inviting students to an annual summer barbecue at Ted Olson's house in Virginia. The Washington staff also helps students plan debates, giving advice on speakers and paying one airfare and hotel stay for every event. With the resources to bring in prominent people, the debates can be the most vibrant events of the school year.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;">During the summer, the society flies student leaders to Washington for a "leadership conference" to explain how to run a student chapter. A manual warns that liberal students may accuse the group of being part of a "national conspiracy masterminded by the notorious evil genius Irving Kristol." If this occurs, Federalists are advised, "the best solution is to try to portray them as being intolerant bullies and unscholarly." The society emphasizes that the debate format is crucial to "convince people of your viewpoint," and notes that "it is often productive to focus on the legal, rather than the policy or moral, aspects of the issues."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;">The formula came through in a round-table talk on Bush v. Gore at Seton Hall Law School in Newark on April 17 on "The Process and Substance of Litigating an Election." All panelists except one, Doug Cox, a Federalist practice-group leader who helped represent Bush before the Supreme Court, grappled with fairness issues: voter access, civil rights violations and the propriety of courts deciding elections. Cox, however, had a more legalistic approach, giving summary descriptions of the arguments in the briefs, petitions to the US Supreme Court and oral arguments. "We can definitely conclude that the legal system worked," he said. Though unexciting, he was civil and reasonable; simply by showing up and laying out arguments he appeared open to genteel debate. The other speakers seemed like foils. One top law school professor says she always rejects Federalist invitations for that reason. "The more I am willing to debate [certain right-wing advocates] the more legitimacy I give them," she says.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;">Often, student Federalists' greatest allies are conservative faculty whose jobs are funded by society supporters like the John M. Olin Foundation, which also gives money to law schools to foster interest in law and economics programs, which embrace ideas of free markets, anticommunism and criticism of the welfare state. At Yale last year, John M. Olin Professor George Priest, who teaches law and economics and serves as the Federalist Society's faculty adviser, received $175,000. Though professors like Priest are few in comparison with the number of moderate and left-leaning faculty, they ardently support conservative students. By contrast, even the best students say liberal professors generally have more students vying for their attention and don't feel the same impetus to mentor. "It's hard to get to know liberal professors in law school unless you are exceptionally persistent," said a former Supreme Court clerk who attended Harvard Law School.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;">Recommendations from professors with judicial connections are key for competitive clerkships. Clerks often provide the intellectual exchange that forms the basis of a judge's decision, and they frequently even draft opinions. Though each judge receives hundreds of applications, a few conservative judges seek out Federalists. Judge Michael Luttig on the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, for example, hires only students with membership in the Federalist Society or comparable credentials on their resumes. And almost all of Judge Luttig's clerks go on to clerkships at the Supreme Court. His unheard-of batting average is sustained because Judge Luttig diverts clerks who don't land a clerkship with other Justices to Justice Scalia (whom Luttig himself clerked for) and Justice Clarence Thomas. Justice Kennedy interviews applicants based on recommendations from a group of Federalist-friendly professors and Judge Kozinski, himself a former Kennedy clerk. Judge Kozinski stresses, however, that Federalist Society membership is only one factor. "If you are suggesting that it gets people jobs it's simply not true," Judge Kozinski says. "It's like saying you're in the Boy Scouts."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;">The Boy Scouts may be a good analogy for the clubbiness that exists among conservative clerks on the Supreme Court. Though the level of social cohesion changes from year to year, conservative clerks work and play together as a bloc in a way that moderate-to-left clerks generally do not. Most notable are the regular poker games held by clerks for Thomas, Scalia, Kennedy and Rehnquist. A recent clerk for a conservative Justice explained the alliance this way: "Conservatives tend to be team-oriented and rule-bound, whereas liberals tend to be odd and individualistic. Have you ever heard of a bunch of liberal people getting together and playing poker? They get together and go to protest marches. It's a simple fact of life." The other clerks don't bond because, except on abortion and states' rights cases, their Justices don't vote as a bloc. "The conservative clerks were a lot more strategic and a lot better coordinated than the liberal clerks," says one clerk about her time at the Court. Moderate-to-left clerks felt the clubbiness most keenly last year during Bush v. Gore. The conservative clerks and their Justices generally agreed with each other, but lack of alignment existed between some moderate clerks and their Justices. While Justice Kennedy is widely reported as having been the swing vote in the case, the conservative majority wouldn't have existed without the supposedly centrist Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Her clerks disagreed with her but could not persuade her to join the splintered dissent, according to people who have spoken with O'Connor clerks as well clerks for other Justices.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;">These days, the right clerkships mean a straight shot into the White House. In the White House counsel's office, several young lawyers who suggest nominees for federal judgeships to the President have been actively involved in the Federalist Society. Among them are associate counsel Noel Francisco, 32 (Luttig/Scalia clerk); associate counsel Brad Berenson, 36 (Kennedy clerk); and Brett Kavanaugh, 35 (Kennedy clerk). In the Justice Department, 31-year-old R. Ted Cruz (Luttig/Rehnquist clerk), who helped prepare the briefs in the Florida election cases, is Associate Deputy Attorney General. And reviewing judicial nominees' written records is Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy Viet Dinh, 33 (O'Connor clerk), a Georgetown professor who tried to obfuscate his politics at his confirmation hearing, claiming that "I am a member of the Federalist Society, and I do not know, quite frankly, what it all stands for."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;">Many young Federalists maintain their ties to the society after law school as officers in its fifteen "practice groups," which parallel the American Bar Association's committees to "improve" areas such as civil rights and religious liberties. Practice-group leaders are often connected to right-wing public interest law firms. Dr. Michael Greve, the co-founder of the Center for Individual Rights in Washington, DC, said Federalist discussions and debates in schools and practice groups have helped his organization conceive and shape litigation. "That is how I get ideas and sort of test them," says Greve, now at the American Enterprise Institute. And practice-group leaders, in conjunction with CIR, have been responsible for some of the greatest victories limiting Congressional authority. Solicitor General Olson, formerly the head of the federalism and separation of powers practice group, litigated the monumental Hopwood v. Texas decision, which put an end to affirmative action at the University of Texas. In 2000 Michael Rosman, vice chairman of the civil rights practice group and general counsel of CIR, led the fight to the Supreme Court that struck down a Violence Against Women Act remedy that allowed sexual assault victims to sue for damages in federal court. And last year, Michael Carvin, chairman-elect of the civil rights practice group, successfully brought Reno v. Bossier Parish School Board, a redistricting case that reduced the Justice Department's authority to require the creation of "majority-minority" voting districts.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;">Practice-group meetings are also a place for lawyers across the country to form alliances. One of the most important cases of the 1999 term had its genesis in such a meeting in Washington, DC, two years earlier. There, Jeff Sutton, a big-firm partner in Ohio who had clerked for both Justices Lewis Powell and Scalia, met Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor. Pryor, a longtime Federalist who as a student founded Tulane's Federalist chapter, persuaded Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth to hire Sutton to argue a case in which their states' interests had been consolidated, Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents. The five Federalist-friendly Justices on the US Supreme Court bought their separation-of-powers argument, which arguably became the harshest limitation on civil rights law enacted in the past twenty-five years. As a result, employees can no longer bring an action against states in federal court under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Sutton again argued for Alabama and, in University of Alabama et al. v. Garrett, successfully convinced the Court to strike down a part of the Americans With Disabilities Act. In a 5-to-4 vote this past February, the Court ruled that individual employees cannot sue their own states for damages in federal court. And this April, in a third case Sutton argued for Alabama, Alexander v. Sandoval, the Supreme Court eviscerated the right of an individual to sue for unintentional discrimination under a provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The victories have put Sutton in good stead: President Bush nominated him to become a federal judge on the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;">Recently, liberals have been working to counteract the power of the Federalist Society [see sidebar, page 16]. But it will require a long, intensive struggle if those efforts are to be anywhere near as coordinated as those of their Federalist counterparts. Once young lawyers are brought into that world, they are unlikely to stray too far, as the case of Kristen Silverberg shows. After graduating from the University of Texas Law School, Silverberg, 30, became a clerk for Federalist Society regular David Sentelle, the DC Circuit Court judge who headed the judicial panel that appointed Ken Starr as an independent prosecutor. After her clerkship, Silverberg raised eyebrows when she chose to begin her law firm career at the undeniably liberal Williams & Connolly, which represented President Bill Clinton at his impeachment trial. She stayed a year, until Clarence Thomas granted her a Supreme Court clerkship–a rare feat for a Texas graduate in a Court where most clerks hail from Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Chicago and Columbia. There, Silverberg gained a reputation for being more moderate than Thomas's usual clerks. She then went to Austin to assist the Bush campaign, which tapped her to work against the Florida recount. Today she walks the halls of the White House as special assistant for policy in the office of the Chief of Staff.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;">One can never know precisely how personal experience motivates political values. 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</div><div>Alex Kozinski (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none !important;">/kəˈzɪnski/</a>; born July 23, 1950)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-National_Park_Service_biography-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[1]</a> is a former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Circuit_Judge" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Circuit Judge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">United States Circuit Judge</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit</a>, where he served from 1985 until announcing his retirement on December 18, 2017, after a growing number of allegations of improper sexual conduct and abusive practices toward law clerks.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-Zapotosky(2017)-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[2]</a>Kozinski was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_judge" title="Chief judge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">chief judge</a> of that court from November 2007 to December 1, 2014. In addition to being a former judge, Kozinski is an essayist and a judicial commentator.[fluff bs?]</div><div>
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</div><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#Early_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Early life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#Education_and_early_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Education and early career</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#Office_of_Special_Counsel_incident" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.1Office of Special Counsel incident</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#Federal_judicial_service" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Federal judicial service</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#Feeder_judge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.1Feeder judge</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#Defense_of_Ninth_Circuit" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.2Defense of Ninth Circuit</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#Ethics_investigation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.3Ethics investigation</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#Support_for_death_penalty" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.4Support for death penalty</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#Allegations_of_sexual_misconduct_and_abusive_employment_practices" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Allegations of sexual misconduct and abusive employment practices</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#Timeline_of_allegations_and_response" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4.1Timeline of allegations and response</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#Notable_cases" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5Notable cases</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#Thompson_v.Calderon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.1Thompson v. Calderon</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#White_v.Samsung_Electronics_America,Inc." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.2White v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc.</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#Mattel,Inc.v.MCA_Records,Inc." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.3Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc.</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#United_States_v.Ramirez-Lopez(2003)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.4United States v. Ramirez-Lopez (2003)</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#United_States_v.Isaacs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.5United States v. Isaacs</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#Cetacean_Research_v.Sea_Shepherd" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.6Cetacean Research v. Sea Shepherd</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#Wood_v.Ryan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.7Wood v. Ryan</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#United_States_v.Sanchez-Gomez" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.8United States v. Sanchez-Gomez</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#Writings" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6Writings</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#Personal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7Personal</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">8See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">9References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">10External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Early life[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alex_Kozinski&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Kozinski was born to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Jews" class="mw-redirect" title="Romanian Jews" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jewish</a> family<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-Bernstein(2015)-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucharest" title="Bucharest" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bucharest</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Romania" title="Socialist Republic of Romania" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Romania</a>, in July 1950. "Alex Kozinski's father, Moses, survived the Second World War, despite spending four years in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria" title="Transnistria" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Transnistrian</a> concentration camps where tens of thousands of Jews and Romani (Gypsies) perished. Alex's mother, Sabine, lived through the war years in a Romanian ghetto."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a>"In 1958, [Kozinski's parents] applied to the Romanian government for permission to emigrate from the country."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a> Four years later, in 1962, when he was 12, his parents, both <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust" class="mw-redirect" title="Holocaust" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Holocaust</a> survivors, brought him to the United States. The family settled in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Feliz" class="mw-redirect" title="Los Feliz" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Los Feliz</a> neighborhood of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Los Angeles</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">California</a>, where his father, Moses, ran a small grocery store. Kozinski, who had grown up as a committed communist in Bucharest, became what he described as "an instant capitalist" when he took his first trip outside of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Curtain" title="Iron Curtain" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Iron Curtain</a>, to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vienna</a>, where he partook of such luxuries as chewing gum and bananas.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Education and early career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alex_Kozinski&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Education and early career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>He received a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Bachelor of Arts</a> degree from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,Los_Angeles" title="University of California, Los Angeles" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">University of California, Los Angeles</a> (1972) and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Juris Doctor</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCLA_School_of_Law" title="UCLA School of Law" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">UCLA School of Law</a> (1975). He was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_clerk" title="Law clerk" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">law clerk</a> for Judge <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Kennedy" title="Anthony Kennedy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Anthony Kennedy</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit</a> (1975–76) and for Chief Justice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Burger" class="mw-redirect" title="Warren Burger" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Warren Burger</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Supreme Court of the United States</a> (1976–77). He was in private practice with Forry, Golbert, Singer & Gelles in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Los Angeles</a> (1977–79) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covington%26_Burling" title="Covington & Burling" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Covington & Burling</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Washington, D.C.</a> (1979–81).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[7]</a> He was a Deputy Legal Counsel of the Office of the President-Elect in Washington, D.C. (1980–81) and an Assistant Counsel for the Office of Counsel to the President in Washington, D.C. (1981). He was a Special Counsel for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merit_Systems_Protection_Board" class="mw-redirect" title="Merit Systems Protection Board" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Merit Systems Protection Board</a> in Washington, D.C. (1981–82).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-fjc.gov-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Office of Special Counsel incident</h3>While he was in the Office of Special Counsel, despite staff recommendations against termination, Kozinski overruled his staff and then repeatedly tutored <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interior_Secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="Interior Secretary" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Interior Secretary</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G.Watt" title="James G. Watt" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">James G. Watt</a>'s legal staff in how to rewrite the proposed termination of a mining safety <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower" title="Whistleblower" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">whistleblower</a>, James Spadaro, so as to pass legal muster. When the incident came to light years later during confirmation hearings for Kozinski's Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals nomination, the scandal drew 43 Senate opposition votes and reportedly subsequently prevented Kozinski's planned promotion to the US Supreme Court.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a>[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">clarification needed</a>]<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Federal judicial service</h2>Kozinski served as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_judge" class="mw-redirect" title="Trial judge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">trial judge</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Claims" title="United States Court of Claims" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Court of Claims</a> in 1982, serving as Chief of Trial Division that year.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-fjc.gov-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a>Kozinski was nominated by President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ronald Reagan</a> on August 10, 1982, to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Federal_Claims" title="United States Court of Federal Claims" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Claims Court</a>, to a new seat authorized by 96 Stat. 27. He was confirmed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Senate</a> on August 20, 1982, and received commission on October 1, 1982. He served as Chief Judge from 1982 to 1985. His service terminated on February 9, 1985, due to resignation.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-fjc.gov-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a>Kozinski was nominated by President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Ronald Reagan</a> on June 5, 1985, to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit</a>, to a new seat created by 98 Stat. 333. Before the confirmation vote took place, former employees from Kozinski's time at the Office of Special Counsel warned the Senate that Kozinski was "harsh, cruel, demeaning, sadistic, disingenuous and without compassion."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-:0-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a> He was nonetheless confirmed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Senate</a> by a vote of 54 to 43 on November 7, 1985, and he received commission the same day.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a> At 35, he was the youngest federal Appeals Court judge at the time of appointment.In 2005, after concluding that the 9th Circuit insufficiently addressed breaches of judicial conduct by Judge <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Real" title="Manuel Real" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Manuel Real</a>, after rules had been enacted to discourage behavior that would initiate "a substantial and widespread lowering of public confidence in the courts among reasonable people," Kozinski demanded the actual imposition of higher standards, writing,"It does not inspire confidence in the federal judiciary, when we treat our own so much better than we treat everyone else." Kozinski was persuasive and Real's case was reopened and he was disciplined.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a>He served as Chief Judge of the circuit from December 1, 2007, to December 1, 2014.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-fjc.gov-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[8]</a> In that capacity, he received complaints about Montana Federal Presiding Judge <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cebull" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Cebull" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Richard Cebull</a>, who had sent hundreds of emails disparaging women, racial minorities and liberal politicians. One joked that President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Barack Obama</a>'s birth was the product of a sexual relationship between Obama's mother and a dog. Kozinski appointed a five-judge panel to review the matter in which he was the chair. It recommended disciplinary measures but not removal; the particulars of the investigation were largely kept confidential, at Kozinski's initiative.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Feeder judge[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alex_Kozinski&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Feeder judge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>During his tenure as a court of appeals judge, he has become a prominent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeder_judge" title="Feeder judge" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">feeder judge</a>. Between 2009–13, he placed nine of his clerks on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Supreme Court" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Supreme Court</a>, the fifth most of any judge during that time period.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-stras-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a> He has been particularly successful placing his clerks with Justice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Kennedy" title="Anthony Kennedy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Anthony Kennedy</a>, for whom he had himself clerked.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-baum-16" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-baum-16" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">16]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Defense of Ninth Circuit[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alex_Kozinski&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Defense of Ninth Circuit" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In the 2000s, while defending the Ninth Circuit against criticism because of a recent controversial decision, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_Grove_Unified_School_District_v.Newdow" title="Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow</a>, Kozinski, who had not been part of the case, emphasized judicial independence: "It seems to me that this is what makes this country truly great—that we can have a judiciary where the person who appoints you doesn't own you."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a> He also took a stand against the charge that the Ninth Circuit is overly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism" title="Liberalism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">liberal</a>: "I can say with some confidence that cries that the Ninth Circuit is so liberal are just simply misplaced."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-michaels2005-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a>On November 30, 2007, he became the tenth chief judge of the Ninth Circuit.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a> His term as chief judge ended on December 1, 2014, when he was succeeded by Judge <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Runyan_Thomas" class="mw-redirect" title="Sidney Runyan Thomas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sidney Runyan Thomas</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Ethics investigation[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alex_Kozinski&action=edit&section=7&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Ethics investigation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In 2008, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Los_Angeles_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="The Los Angeles Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Los Angeles Times</a> revealed Kozinski "maintained a publicly accessible website featuring sexually explicit photos and videos."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a> Kozinski had collected a "vast" number of images sent to him via e-mail over many years and retained them on a personal web server in his home. Only a "small fraction" of the images were offensive. Kozinski believed that only invited friends and family were able to view the image directory.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-complaint-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a> Nonetheless, he called for an ethics investigation of himself.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a> In July 2009, a panel, headed by Judge <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Scirica" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthony Scirica" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Anthony Scirica</a>, wrote that Kozinski should have administered his web server more carefully but that Kozinski's apology and deletion of the web site "properly conclude" the matter.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-complaint-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Support for death penalty[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alex_Kozinski&action=edit&section=8&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Support for death penalty" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In an interview on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS" title="CBS" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CBS</a>'s 60 Minutes in April 2017, Kozinski talked about his support for the death penalty but with the reservation that death by lethal injection should no longer be used. He advocated the use of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine" title="Guillotine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">guillotine</a> or firing squad and said that for any country that wants to take human life, citizens should be prepared to watch the proceedings.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Allegations of sexual misconduct and abusive employment practices</h2>Kozinski has been accused of sexual misconduct, ranging from harassment to assault, by more than fifteen women. Former Kozinski clerk Katherine Ku has described Kozinski's chambers—where three or four law clerks, one or two judicial assistants, and one or more judicial externs typically worked at a given time—as a "hostile, demeaning and persistently sexualized environment."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-:1-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a> An image posted on the legal gossip blog Underneath their Robes shows Kozinski with a law clerk draped around him.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a>Some former Kozinski clerks have observed that because Kozinski retired from the bench after the first fifteen women accused him of misconduct, "additional targets of, or witnesses to, Kozinski's transgressions" will not be likely to speak publicly.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-:1-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a> His former clerk, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh" title="Brett Kavanaugh" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Brett Kavanaugh</a>, during his hearing before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Judiciary_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="Senate Judiciary Committee" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Senate Judiciary Committee</a> taking up his nomination for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Supreme Court" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Supreme Court</a>, received written questions tendered to him by Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Coons" title="Chris Coons" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Chris Coons</a> about any knowledge of Kozinski's inappropriate behavior, including his circulations of sexually explicit emails via his "Easy Rider Gag List." Though Coons had asked him, on September 10, 2018, to review his emails from the judge, Kavanaugh's written and oral responses were vague, and skirted the senator's direct inquiry.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a>Kozinski interacted with, and allegedly harassed and assaulted, lawyers at different stages of their careers. He would regularly employ salaried full-time law clerks (recent law school graduates) and unpaid externs (law students). He interacted with clerks for other judges when they traveled to other courthouses for oral arguments. While on the bench, Kozinski was also a mainstay at law school moot courts<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a> and conferences.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a>He also taught courses at Stanford.Public allegations of Kozinski's sexual misconduct toward female lawyers and law students include:<ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Kozinski would allegedly call clerk <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtney_Milan" title="Courtney Milan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Heidi Bond</a> into his office, pull up pornography on his computer, and ask if she thought it was photoshopped or if it aroused her sexually, interrogating her about why it did not.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-washpo8dec17-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A former Kozinski clerk said Kozinski, in his chambers, showed her an "open-legged image of a male figure that was naked."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-:2-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"One recent law student at the University of Montana said that Kozinski, at a 2016 reception, pressed his finger into the side of her breast, which was covered by her clothes, and moved it with some 'deliberateness' to the center, purporting to be pushing aside her lapel to fully see her name tag."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-:2-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A lawyer "said Kozinski approached her when she was alone in a room at a legal community event around 2008 in downtown Los Angeles and — with no warning — gave her a bear hug and kissed her on the lips."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-:2-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">University of California at Irvine law professor, Leah Litman, said Kozinski pinched her at a dinner this year, and he also joked that he had just had sex with his wife and she or others at the table would be 'happy to know it still works.'"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-:2-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Former U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge, Christine O.C. Miller, 73, said that "around early 1986 said Kozinski grabbed and squeezed each of her breasts as the two drove back from an event in Baltimore in the mid-1980s, after she had told him she did not want to stop at a motel and have sex."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-:2-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlia_Lithwick" title="Dahlia Lithwick" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dahlia Lithwick</a> wrote in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate(magazine)" title="Slate (magazine)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Slate</a> that when she was clerking for another judge on the 9th Circuit and Kozinski learned she was in a hotel room, he asked her what she was wearing.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Nancy Rapoport, special counsel to the president of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, has written that when she was clerking for another judge on the 9th Circuit, Judge Kozinski invited her to drinks and asked, "What do single girls in San Francisco do for sex?"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[37]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Emily Murphy, who was clerking for another Ninth Circuit judge at the time and later became a professor at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,Hastings_College_of_the_Law" title="University of California, Hastings College of the Law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">UC Hastings</a>, said Kozinski suggested to a group that she exercise naked in the courthouse gymnasium.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-Dolan-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a> Murphy has said, "It wasn't just clear that he was imagining me naked, he was trying to invite other people — my professional colleagues — to do so as well. That was what was humiliating about it."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-Dolan-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A former 9th Circuit clerk reported that in late 2011 or early 2012, she found herself sitting next to Kozinski at a dinner in Seattle. He "kind of picked the tablecloth up so that he could see the bottom half of me, my legs," and he remarked, "I wanted to see if you were wearing pants because it's cold out."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-washpo8dec17-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A "former 9th Circuit clerk said that at a dinner with other clerks, Kozinski brought up a movie that contained a topless woman, talking about her 'voluptuous' breasts. The woman . . . said she made a face to signal her disbelief at what he was saying, and Kozinski turned to her and said something like, 'What? I'm a man.'"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-:2-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">One "former Kozinski extern said the judge once made a comment about her hair and looked her body up and down 'in a less-than-professional way.' That extern said Kozinski also once talked with her about a female judge stripping." The clerk said she wouldn't want to be alone with Kozinski.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-washpo8dec17-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A former extern said she had at least two conversations with Kozinski "that had sexual overtones directed at me."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-washpo8dec17-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a></li></ul>Former clerks also describe abusive employment practices by Kozinski.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-washpo8dec17-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a> For many years, Judge Kozinski's job announcement stated that "I'm looking for amazingly intelligent Supreme Court clerk wannabes eager to slave like dogs for an unreasonably demanding boss."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[39]</a> Former law clerk Heidi Bond described how Kozinski forbade her from reading romance novels during her dinner break: the Judge asserted, "I control what you read, what you write, when you eat. You don't sleep if I say so. You don't shit unless I say so. Do you understand?"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[40]</a> Bond also described interactions consistent with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_of_abuse" title="Cycle of abuse" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">cycles of abuse</a>.<blockquote style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This sort of diatribe was a regular occurrence. The judge had incredibly high standards, and when we failed to meet them, we were raked over the coals. I do not think a week passed without at least one such outburst; during bad times, they were a daily occurrence. He also had an innate sense of when he'd gone too far. . . .</blockquote><blockquote style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After he'd demonstrated that he had forgiven me for the misplaced comma or misspelled word that gave rise to his outburst, he would go up to me.</blockquote><blockquote style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Heidi, honey," he would ask. "Do you still love me?"</blockquote><blockquote style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There was only one answer. To say "no" would be to invite the tempest a second time.</blockquote><blockquote style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Yes, Judge," I would say. "Of course I still love you."</blockquote><blockquote style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He'd kiss my cheek, and I would kiss his.</blockquote>Former clerk Katherine Ku wrote that Kozinski expected to be able to approve the location of her apartment, would complain when his clerks "wanted salad for lunch instead of whatever he was having," and "regularly diminished women and their accomplishments."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-:1-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a>Complaints about Kozinski's abusive employment practices were raised as early as 1985 by former Kozinski employees. Those employees claimed Kozinski was unqualified to join the 9th Circuit "because of a harsh temperament, questionable decisions and misleading testimony before the Judiciary Committee."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-:0-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a> They said Kozinski was "harsh, cruel, demeaning, sadistic, disingenuous and without compassion," and that his actions as a boss "portray[ed] an unusual degree of hostility . . . and at times an almost complete disregard for the consequences of the actions upon individuals."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-:0-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Timeline of allegations and response[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alex_Kozinski&action=edit&section=10&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Timeline of allegations and response" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>On December 8, 2017, Kozinski was accused of misconduct by six women including former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_clerk" title="Law clerk" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">law clerks</a> and junior staffers,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[41]</a>Kozinski responded to the allegations saying he did not remember showing any type of sexual material to his clerks and,"If this is all they are able to dredge up after 35 years, I am not too worried."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[42]</a>Kozinski officially issued a statement that read:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-washpo8dec17-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a><blockquote class="templatequote" style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I have been a judge for 35 years and during that time have had over 500 employees in my chambers. I treat all of my employees as family and work very closely with most of them. I would never intentionally do anything to offend anyone and it is regrettable that a handful have been offended by something I may have said or done.</blockquote>On December 14, the chief judge of the 9th Circuit referred the matters for investigation and a day later assigned them to the 2nd Circuit.On December 15, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Washington Post</a> published a story with allegations against Kozinski from 9 more women, this time with more prominent accusers including colleagues, law students, a professor and a former judge. The disclosed sexual misbehavior allegations span more than three decades, including allegations of unwanted physical touching and invitations by Kozinski to have sex. Four of the women say Kozinski touched or kissed them without permission. Three of the clerks who were working for him when the allegations broke resigned their positions.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[43]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[44]</a>On December 18, 2017, Kozinski announced his immediate retirement,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-Zapotosky(2017)-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> though stepped down in a way that lets him keep his retirement benefits. It's unknown whether the investigation on Kozinski will continue. He stated during his resignation that the women must have misunderstood his "broad sense of humor" and "candid way of speaking."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[45]</a>Upon his retirement, many news sources characterized him as both a "libertarian," and a writer of "colorful" opinions.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[46]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[47]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-48" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[48]</a>Kozinski's personal website, the subject of various controversies over the years<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-49" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[49]</a> for his allegedly inappropriate posting, had been the subject of interest through the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WayBackMachine" class="mw-redirect" title="WayBackMachine" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">WayBackMachine</a> to record those postings. However, the domain is now specifically excluded from the archive.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[50]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Notable cases[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alex_Kozinski&action=edit&section=11&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Notable cases" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Thompson v. Calderon[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alex_Kozinski&action=edit&section=12&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Thompson v. Calderon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Thomas Martin Thompson was convicted based largely on the testimony of his fellow inmates, but doubts about the effectiveness of his defense counsel led seven former California prosecutors to file briefs on Thompson's behalf.The Ninth Circuit had originally denied Thompson's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas" class="mw-redirect" title="Habeas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">habeas</a> petition attacking the state court decision. Two days before Thompson's scheduled execution, the Ninth Circuit <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_banc" title="En banc" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">en banc</a> reversed (7–4) the earlier denial.Kozinski <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissenting_opinion" title="Dissenting opinion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">dissented</a>:<blockquote class="templatequote" style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If the en banc call is missed for whatever reason, the error can be corrected in a future case where the problem again manifests itself.... That this is a capital case does not change the calculus. The stakes are higher in a death case, to be sure, but the stakes for a particular litigant play no legitimate role in the en banc process.</blockquote>Kozinski's opinion was criticized by Judge <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Reinhardt" title="Stephen Reinhardt" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Stephen Reinhardt</a>, who called it "bizarre and horrifying" and "unworthy of any jurist."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-bazelon-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[51]</a> The en banc decision was reversed by the Supreme Court, which called the Ninth Circuit's action "a grave abuse of discretion."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[52]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">White v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alex_Kozinski&action=edit&section=13&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: White v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Kozinski dissented from an order rejecting the suggestion for rehearing en banc an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal" title="Appeal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">appeal</a> filed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanna_White" title="Vanna White" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vanna White</a> against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung" title="Samsung" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Samsung</a> for depicting a robot on a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_Fortune(U.S.game_show)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wheel of Fortune</a>–style set in a humorous advertisement. While the Ninth Circuit held in favor of White, Kozinski dissented: "All creators draw in part on the work of those who came before, referring to it, building on it, poking fun at it; we call this creativity, not piracy."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[53]</a>An extended extract from the opinion is widely quoted:<blockquote class="templatequote" style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new: Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it's supposed to nurture.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-54" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[54]</a></blockquote>Kozinski's dissent in White is also famous for his sarcastic remark that "for better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood" title="Hollywood" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hollywood</a> Circuit."<h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alex_Kozinski&action=edit&section=14&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattel,Inc.v.MCA_Records,Inc." title="Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc.</a></div>Yet another of Kozinski's high-profile cases was the lawsuit filed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattel" title="Mattel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mattel</a> against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCA_Records" title="MCA Records" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">MCA Records</a>, the record label of Danish pop-dance group <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua(band)" title="Aqua (band)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Aqua</a>, for "turning <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie" title="Barbie" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Barbie</a> into a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_objectification" title="Sexual objectification" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">sex object</a>" in their 1997 song "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie_Girl" title="Barbie Girl" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Barbie Girl</a>." Kozinski opened the case with: "If this were a sci-fi melodrama, it might be called Speech-Zilla meets Trademark Kong" and famously concluded his 2002 opinion with the words: "The parties are advised to chill."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-55" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[55]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">United States v. Ramirez-Lopez (2003)[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alex_Kozinski&action=edit&section=15&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: United States v. Ramirez-Lopez (2003)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>The majority found the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_process" title="Due process" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">due process</a> rights of a man, who was accused of smuggling <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigrant" class="mw-redirect" title="Illegal immigrant" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">illegal immigrants</a> across the border, were not violated despite the fact that witnesses who could have exonerated him had been deported before they could be deposed. Kozinski dissented. Federal prosecutors, however, dropped all charges and released the defendant.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-56" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[56]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-57" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[57]</a>In 2012, after prosecutors used similar tactics in another case, United States v. Leal-Del Carmen, Kozinski's position in Ramirez-Lopez became the law in the Ninth Circuit.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-58" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[58]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-59" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[59]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">United States v. Isaacs[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alex_Kozinski&action=edit&section=16&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: United States v. Isaacs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Kozinski was assigned an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscenity" title="Obscenity" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">obscenity</a> case, similar to that in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_v.California" title="Miller v. California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Miller v. California</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Isaacs" title="Ira Isaacs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ira Isaacs</a> was accused of distributing videos depicting bestiality and other images.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-60" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[60]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-61" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[61]</a> During the trial on June 11, 2008, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Los Angeles Times</a> reported that Kozinski had "maintained a publicly accessible Web site featuring sexually explicit photos and videos" at alex.kozinski.com." The Times reported that the site included a photo of naked women on all fours painted to look like cows; a video of a half-dressed man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal; images of masturbation and public and contortionist sex; a slide show striptease featuring a transgender woman; a series of photos of women's crotches as seen through snug fitting clothing or underwear; and content with themes of defecation and urination. Kozinski admitted that some of the material was inappropriate but defended other content as "funny."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-glover2008-62" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[62]</a>Calling the coverage a "baseless smear" by a disgruntled litigant, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Stanford University</a> law professor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig" title="Lawrence Lessig" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lawrence Lessig</a> pointed out that the Times had unfairly taken the videos and pictures out of context in its descriptions. He wrote that one frequently-mentioned video, the video described above as a "half-dressed man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal," which actually involves a man running away from a donkey, is available on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">YouTube</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-youtube-63" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[63]</a> and is not, as is implied by the Times article, an example of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestiality" class="mw-redirect" title="Bestiality" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">bestiality</a>. He also argued that the Kozinski family's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_privacy" title="Right to privacy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">right to privacy</a> was violated when the disgruntled litigant exposed the private files, which were not intended for public viewing. Lessig compared the incident to breaking and entering a private residence.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-lessig-64" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[64]</a>Kozinski initially refused to comment on disqualifying himself<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-liptak-65" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[65]</a> and then granted a 48-hour stay, when the prosecutor requested time to explore "a potential conflict of interest."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-glover2008-62" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[62]</a> On June 13, Kozinski petitioned an ethics panel to investigate his own conduct. He asked Chief Justice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roberts" title="John Roberts" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Roberts</a> to assign the inquiry to a panel of judges outside the Ninth Circuit's jurisdiction. Also, he said that his son, Yale, and his family or friends may have been responsible for posting some of the material.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-66" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[66]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-67" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[67]</a> Kozinski's wife wrote a defense characterizing those of his posts which were alleged to be pornographic, to rather be humorous.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-Marcy-68" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[68]</a>Kozinski had previously been involved in a dispute over government monitoring of federal court employees' computers. Administrative Office head <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Mecham" class="mw-redirect" title="Ralph Mecham" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ralph Mecham</a> dropped the monitoring program but protested in the press.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-69" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[69]</a> In 2001, Kozinski, who possesses sophisticated computer skills, personally disabled software which blocked federal court computers in three appellate circuits from receiving pornography.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-70" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[70]</a>On June 15, 2008, it was reported that Kozinski had <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recused" class="mw-redirect" title="Recused" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">recused</a> himself from the case.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-71" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[71]</a> On June 5, 2009, the Judicial Council of the Third Circuit issued an opinion clearing Kozinski of any wrongdoing.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-72" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[72]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-73" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[73]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Cetacean Research v. Sea Shepherd[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alex_Kozinski&action=edit&section=17&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Cetacean Research v. Sea Shepherd" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In February 2013, Kozinski wrote an opinion reversing a district court ruling that had denied Japanese whalers <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Cetacean_Research" title="Institute of Cetacean Research" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Institute of Cetacean Research</a> a preliminary injunction against the US-based anti-whaling group <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Shepherd_Conservation_Society" title="Sea Shepherd Conservation Society" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Sea Shepherd Conservation Society</a>. Kozinski found that the militant conservationist group were "pirates," reversed the denial of injunction by the district court, and affirmed its own provisional injunction against Sea Shepherd. The injunction bars Sea Shepherd from approaching within 500 yards of ICS vessels.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-74" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[74]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-75" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[75]</a>Sea Shepherd founder <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Watson" title="Paul Watson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Paul Watson</a> dismissed the opinion enjoining his organization from interfering with ICS vessels as "entirely devoid of real evidence" and claimed that Sea Shepherd USA was in full compliance with the injunction.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-76" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[76]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Wood v. Ryan[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alex_Kozinski&action=edit&section=18&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Wood v. Ryan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In July 2014, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rudolph_Wood" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Rudolph Wood" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Joseph Rudolph Wood</a>, who had been sentenced to death, filed a motion before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals claiming a right to know which chemicals were included in the lethal injection that was to be used to execute him. While the court denied his motion, Kozinski issued a dissenting opinion, calling the use of drugs a "misguided effort to mask the brutality of executions by making them look serene and peaceful." He went on to argue that states should revert to more primitive methods like the guillotine, electric chair, gas chamber, and firing squads because they are accurate and do not mask the brutality. He wrote, "Sure, firing squads can be messy, but if we are willing to carry out executions, we should not shield ourselves from the reality that we are shedding human blood. If we, as a society, cannot stomach the splatter from an execution carried out by firing squad, then we shouldn't be carrying out executions at all."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-77" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[77]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-78" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[78]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-The_Washington_Post_Morning_Mix-79" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[79]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-Associated_Press-80" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[80]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-Good_Morning_America,ABC_News-81" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[81]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-Mail_Online,Associated_Press-82" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[82]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-Los_Angeles_Times-83" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[83]</a> Wood's execution subsequently took 1 hour 57 min before he was pronounced dead.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-Mail_Online,Associated_Press-82" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[82]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">United States v. Sanchez-Gomez[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alex_Kozinski&action=edit&section=19&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: United States v. Sanchez-Gomez" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In May 2017, Kozinski wrote for the narrowly divided <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_banc" title="En banc" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">en banc</a> circuit when it found that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Southern_District_of_California" title="United States District Court for the Southern District of California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States District Court for the Southern District of California</a>'s policy of indiscriminately shackling criminal defendants in all pretrial hearings violated the Constitution's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_Process_Clause" title="Due Process Clause" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Due Process Clause</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-84" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[84]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-85" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[85]</a> In March 2018, the court's judgment was vacated as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mootness" title="Mootness" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">moot</a> by the unanimous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Supreme Court of the United States</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-86" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[86]</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_States_v.Sanchez-Gomez&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="United States v. Sanchez-Gomez (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States v. Sanchez-Gomez</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-87" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[87]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Writings[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alex_Kozinski&action=edit&section=20&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Writings" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>In addition to being a former judge, Kozinski has been an essayist and a judicial commentator.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-Golden-88" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[88]</a> Kozinski contributions to law journals have been used in graduate instruction at Georgetown University,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-Georgetown_Journal-89" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[89]</a> and his essays have been featured in publications such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate(magazine)" title="Slate (magazine)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Slate</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The New Yorker</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Republic" title="The New Republic" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The New Republic</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Review</a>.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">citation needed</a>]<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Personal[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alex_Kozinski&action=edit&section=21&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Kozinski and his wife, attorney Marcy Jane Tiffany, were married soon after he graduated from law school. They have three sons.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#cite_note-Marcy-68" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[68]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">See also</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_clerks_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush_Supreme_Court_candidates" title="George W. Bush Supreme Court candidates" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George W. Bush Supreme Court candidates</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/287952-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Chief Judge Alex Kozinski moderated discussion with U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan on CSPAN - July 23, 2009</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?320640-1/book-discussion-licensed-lie" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center" background-size="background-size" initial="initial" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" repeat="repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Book Discussion: "Licensed to Lie" Forward and commentary on CSPAN by Judge Kozinski - July 23, 2014</a></li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">References</h2><div>...</div><div>
</div><div>=</div><div><div class="bkWMgd" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="g mnr-c g-blk" lang="en-US" data-hveid="CAwQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQjDYoAHoECAwQAA" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; position: relative;"><div class="kp-blk c2xzTb Wnoohf OJXvsb" style="box-shadow: none; border: 1px solid rgb(223, 225, 229); border-radius: 8px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: -20px; position: relative;"><div class="xpdopen"><div class="ifM9O"><div class="mod" data-md="61" lang="en-US" style="clear: none; padding-top: 16px; border-radius: 8px; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px;"><div class="LGOjhe" aria-level="3" role="heading" data-hveid="CAwQAQ" style="overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 20px;">Bond is one of six women — all former clerks or more junior staffers known as externs in the 9th Circuit — who alleged to The Washington Post in recent weeks thatKozinski, now 67 and still serving as a judge on the court, subjected them to a range of inappropriate sexual conduct or comments.Dec 8, 2017</div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; clear: both; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px;"><div data-hveid="CAwQBA" data-ved="2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQFSgAMAF6BAgMEAQ"><div class="rc" style="position: relative; clear: both; padding-bottom: 0px;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/prominent-appeals-court-judge-alex-kozinski-accused-of-sexual-misconduct/2017/12/08/1763e2b8-d913-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/prominent-appeals-court-judge-alex-kozinski-accused-of-sexual-misconduct/2017/12/08/1763e2b8-d913-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html&ved=2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQFjABegQIDBAF" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/prominent-appeals-court-judge-alex-kozinski-accused-of-sexual-misconduct/2017/12/08/1763e2b8-d913-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/prominent-appeals-court-judge-alex-kozinski-accused-of-sexual-misconduct/2017/12/08/1763e2b8-d913-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html&ved=2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQFjABegQIDBAF" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/prominent-appeals-court-judge-alex-kozinski-accused-of-sexual-misconduct/2017/12/08/1763e2b8-d913-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/prominent-appeals-court-judge-alex-kozinski-accused-of-sexual-misconduct/2017/12/08/1763e2b8-d913-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html&ved=2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQFjABegQIDBAF" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/prominent-appeals-court-judge-alex-kozinski-accused-of-sexual-misconduct/2017/12/08/1763e2b8-d913-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/prominent-appeals-court-judge-alex-kozinski-accused-of-sexual-misconduct/2017/12/08/1763e2b8-d913-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html&ved=2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQFjABegQIDBAF" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Prominent appeals court Judge Alex Kozinski accused of sexual ...</a></h3>
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Isaacs</a> - Alex Kozinski is a former United States Circuit Judge of the United ..... He asked Chief Justice John Roberts to assign the inquiry to a panel of judges outside the Ninth Circuit's jurisdiction. ... which blocked federal court computers in three appellate circuits from receiving pornography.<div class="P1usbc" data-ved="2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQrz0wAnoECAEQBw" style="display: table; margin: 5px 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><div class="VNLkW" style="display: table-row; vertical-align: top;"><div class="i4vd5e" data-ved="2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQsz0oADACegQIARAI" style="display: table-cell;">Children‎: ‎Yale, Wyatt, Clayton</div><div class="G1Rrjc" data-ved="2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQsz0oATACegQIARAJ" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">Born‎: ‎July 23, 1950 (age 68); Bucharest, Rom...</div></div></div><div class="osl" style="margin-top: 0px;">‎<a class="fl" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#Early_life" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski%23Early_life&ved=2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQ0gIoADACegQIARAL" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.54;">Early life</a> · ‎<a class="fl" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#Education_and_early_career" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski%23Education_and_early_career&ved=2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQ0gIoATACegQIARAM" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.54;">Education and early career</a> · ‎<a class="fl" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#Federal_judicial_service" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski%23Federal_judicial_service&ved=2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQ0gIoAjACegQIARAN" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.54;">Federal judicial service</a> · ‎<a class="fl" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski#Notable_cases" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski%23Notable_cases&ved=2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQ0gIoAzACegQIARAO" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.54;">Notable cases</a></div></div><div data-base-uri="/search" id="ed_2" data-ved="2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQ2Z0BMAJ6BAgBEA8"><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px;"><div data-hveid="CAQQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQFSgAMAN6BAgEEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Alex_Kozinski" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://ballotpedia.org/Alex_Kozinski&ved=2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQFjADegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Alex_Kozinski" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://ballotpedia.org/Alex_Kozinski&ved=2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQFjADegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Alex_Kozinski" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://ballotpedia.org/Alex_Kozinski&ved=2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQFjADegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Alex_Kozinski" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://ballotpedia.org/Alex_Kozinski&ved=2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQFjADegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Alex_Kozinski" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://ballotpedia.org/Alex_Kozinski&ved=2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQFjADegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Alex Kozinski - Ballotpedia</a></h3>
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He also asked that U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts assign the Kozinski complaint to a different judicial circuit.</a><div class="osl" style="margin-top: 0px;"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://ballotpedia.org/Alex_Kozinski+Alex+Kozinski,+Chief+Judge,+United+States+Court+of+Appeals+for+the+Ninth+Circuit&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQHzADegQIBBAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">‎</a><a class="fl" href="https://ballotpedia.org/Alex_Kozinski#Professional_career" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://ballotpedia.org/Alex_Kozinski%23Professional_career&ved=2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQ0gIoADADegQIBBAH" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.54;">Professional career</a> · ‎<a class="fl" href="https://ballotpedia.org/Alex_Kozinski#Judicial_career" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://ballotpedia.org/Alex_Kozinski%23Judicial_career&ved=2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQ0gIoATADegQIBBAI" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.54;">Judicial career</a> · ‎<a class="fl" href="https://ballotpedia.org/Alex_Kozinski#Noteworthy_cases" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://ballotpedia.org/Alex_Kozinski%23Noteworthy_cases&ved=2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQ0gIoAjADegQIBBAJ" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.54;">Noteworthy cases</a> · ‎<a class="fl" href="https://ballotpedia.org/Alex_Kozinski#Noteworthy_events" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://ballotpedia.org/Alex_Kozinski%23Noteworthy_events&ved=2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQ0gIoAzADegQIBBAK" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.54;">Noteworthy events</a></div></div><div data-base-uri="/search" id="ed_1" data-ved="2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQ2Z0BMAN6BAgEEAs"><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px;"><div data-hveid="CAkQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQFSgAMAR6BAgJEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/prominent-appeals-court-judge-alex-kozinski-accused-of-sexual-misconduct/2017/12/08/1763e2b8-d913-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/prominent-appeals-court-judge-alex-kozinski-accused-of-sexual-misconduct/2017/12/08/1763e2b8-d913-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html&ved=2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQFjAEegQICRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/prominent-appeals-court-judge-alex-kozinski-accused-of-sexual-misconduct/2017/12/08/1763e2b8-d913-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/prominent-appeals-court-judge-alex-kozinski-accused-of-sexual-misconduct/2017/12/08/1763e2b8-d913-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html&ved=2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQFjAEegQICRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Prominent appeals court Judge Alex Kozinski accused of sexual ...</a></h3>
<div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.54; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.43;">https://www.washingtonpost.com/...appeals-court-judge-alex-kozinski.../1763e2b8-d913...</cite></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.54;">Dec 8, 2017 - Bond is one of six women — all former clerks or more junior staffers known as externs in the 9th Circuit — who alleged to The Washington Post in recent weeks that Kozinski, now 67 and still serving as a judge on the court, subjected them to a range of inappropriate sexual conduct or comments.</div><div data-base-uri="/search" id="ed_5" data-ved="2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQ2Z0BMAR6BAgJEAM"><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px;"><div data-hveid="CAgQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQFSgAMAV6BAgIEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/judge-who-quit-over-harassment-allegations-reemerges-dismaying-those-who-accused-him/2018/07/23/750a02f2-89db-11e8-a345-a1bf7847b375_story.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/judge-who-quit-over-harassment-allegations-reemerges-dismaying-those-who-accused-him/2018/07/23/750a02f2-89db-11e8-a345-a1bf7847b375_story.html&ved=2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQFjAFegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/judge-who-quit-over-harassment-allegations-reemerges-dismaying-those-who-accused-him/2018/07/23/750a02f2-89db-11e8-a345-a1bf7847b375_story.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/judge-who-quit-over-harassment-allegations-reemerges-dismaying-those-who-accused-him/2018/07/23/750a02f2-89db-11e8-a345-a1bf7847b375_story.html&ved=2ahUKEwj5ybGZzOniAhVJvKwKHS1qD7kQFjAFegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Judge Alex Kozinski, who quit over sexual harassment allegations ...</a></h3>
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